Tagged: kickstarter

March 20, 2014 @ 5:01 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

TechCrunch Disrupt is taking place at the Manhattan Center in New York City on May 5-7, and Kickstarter CEO Yancey Strickler will be among the many thought leaders gracing the stage in 2014. John Biggs of TechCrunch alludes to the discussion skewing toward Crowdfunding 2.0, so… Read More

March 20, 2014 @ 1:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

. Unless you are looking to pick up a pretty cool T-shirt or just give some backer “pure love” – you will be out of luck in reserving a Mini-Museum reward as this crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter blew the doors off an interesting project for… Read More

March 20, 2014 @ 10:08 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Steve Swink is an Arizona-based game developer and the man behind Scale, a video game that raised over $100,000 on Kickstarter in a round that closed late in 2013. The game looks incredible, by the way. It elicits thoughts of Portal with a bit of… Read More

March 19, 2014 @ 9:24 am By JD Alois  |  

RSVP required. Hey New York! We’re hosting another Kickstarter Open House on March 20th. Whether you’re making a film, designing a fashion line, launching an app or anything in between, no creative idea is too weird, big or small. Come hang out!

March 18, 2014 @ 4:54 pm By JD Alois  |  

________________________________ I must admit I was a bit mesmerized watching people zip around on this new type of cycle.  I am a committed biker so I was intrigued to see a bike (tricycle?) with a joy stick zooming around the country. Created by a startup… Read More

March 18, 2014 @ 4:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding on Kickstarter, Super Retro Squad raised $53,509 on a goal of raising just $10,000.  In the world of crowdfunding these are pretty small numbers but for the 1,853 backers who as of yet have seen a game it means a lot.  Two years on… Read More

March 18, 2014 @ 11:07 am By JD Alois  |  

Boston based Launch Angels has announced their first investment for their WHERE Angels Fund (WAF). Klymit, which ran a successful Kickstarter campaign back in 2012 crowdfunding more than $50,000 on the rewards based platform,  has now been the beneficiary of an investment from the angel… Read More

March 16, 2014 @ 1:28 pm By JD Alois  |  

Film and video is the second most successful category on the global crowdfunding platform.  Since Kickstarter launched they have raised almost $200 million ($165 million successful) for over 33,000 projects.  Sure we all know about Veronica Mars, Zach Braff and Spike Lee but there are… Read More

March 15, 2014 @ 12:40 pm By JD Alois  |  

PonoPlayer in Top Ten Most Funded on Kickstarter. The Pono digital music player, created by rock star Neil Young and an experienced team of professionals, has crushed their crowdfunding goal of raising $800,000.  If you blinked you missed it, as they hit that target almost… Read More

March 14, 2014 @ 11:57 am By JD Alois  |  

Here is some awesome Friday crowdfunding humor from comedian Jimmy Fallon.  During the tense times created by the upheaval in the Ukraine, with ongoing reports stating Russia is going to invade the country – and then reports they will not, Fallon has created a brief… Read More

March 14, 2014 @ 11:03 am By Charles Luzar  |  

It’s Veronica Mars day. Related: A Fan History of Veronica Mars [Kickstarter] Director Rob Thomas joined CNBC on Wednesday to take a look back at the campaign. Consider that when the film launched on Kickstarter, the largest Kickstarter campaign ever had raised just short of… Read More

March 13, 2014 @ 10:39 am By Charles Luzar  |  

In this past week’s episode of Inside Crowdfunding, Alon and I sat down with Richard Bliss of the Funding The Dream podcast. What ensued was almost an hour of fascinating input from Richard on rewards-based crowdfunding strategy, platforms, campaigns and the hustle it takes to… Read More

March 12, 2014 @ 12:22 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

If you want a case study in how a Kickstarter can go horribly wrong, look no further than the campaign for SOAP, a touchscreen home automation router. The campaign is fully funded despite bleeding almost $4,000 since we caught wind of scam allegations surrounding the campaign… Read More

March 12, 2014 @ 10:17 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Joystiq’s monthly Crowdfund Bookie report is out and it isn’t pretty. For the quarter beginning in December 2013 and ending February 2014, just over $6.1 million was contributed to video game-related crowdfunding campaigns. That is down more than 50% from the $12.5 million contributed between… Read More

March 11, 2014 @ 3:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfund Insider reported earlier today that Neil Young was preparing to launch their crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter later this week. Well it appears that we were a bit off as the campaign has just launched. Young and his team just launched on Kickstarter and they… Read More

March 11, 2014 @ 10:50 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Could you imagine having raised over $100,000 on Kickstarter only to cancel the campaign with less than 48 hours to go? That is precisely what Tivitas Interactive has done, and they deserve a lot of credit for it. The campaign was for the Sinister multi-platform… Read More

March 11, 2014 @ 10:35 am By JD Alois  |  

Perpetual rock musician Neil Young recently announced his new music device and service Pono.  He is presenting tonight at SXSW to share his vision for the future of high fidelity streaming music.  Young has been vocal about current streaming music services and their inferior audio… Read More

March 10, 2014 @ 10:16 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Oregon-based Carbon Audio has one successful Kickstarter under their belt. The company raised over $70,000 on a $25,000 goal for the Zooka, a wireless speaker for iDevices. The crowdfunding success was also accompanied by a $1.5 million round. The product eventually found its way into… Read More

March 10, 2014 @ 10:06 am By JD Alois  |  

Artists, Designers, Cinematographers, musicians and anyone else that has great ideas. That is what the Washington, DC based creative collective “Beyond Our Years” is all about. Young creative friends in their early 20’s came upon an abandoned warehouse in DC and they have transformed the… Read More

March 9, 2014 @ 9:30 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Miracle Machine is not even crowdfunding yet and already it is generating a buzz.  Expected to launch a crowdfunding campaign soon on Kickstarter, the device is a new process to create high quality of wine, at a fraction of the current cost, in just… Read More